Donnie Brasco
My Undercover Life in the Mafia

I know this book is a watershed in the history of Mob literature, and that Pistone's investigatory efforts were a breaking point for the Mob. But this book of his just leaves me dozing. I don't know what it is; maybe he's just a boring guy. Everyone blathers on about how great this book is, but I do......more

Gets old after a while--mostly cuz there's no psychological depth or very little analysis of what's going on. So it turns into: this happened, then this happened, then that happened.......more

Cool. Good. Un-romantic. Not psychologically insightful, by design. Pistone spent so many years undercover, separated from his family, working on taking the Mob down, and he categorically states that the experience didn't affect him emotionally. Just a job. I think that's a great example of compartm......more

I first ran into this book when an excerpt of it was inserted in "The Mammoth Book of the Mafia". At that time I read it as just a short peek into the life of the wiseguys, but when I bought my Kindle, I downloaded a sample of it and then bought the book. Joe Pistone, an FBI agent, didn't really aim......more

I have always been interested in 'Mafia' novels. I find them to be very chilling, gripping, and exciting to read. Joseph D. Pistone's book was not an exception. He worked undercover inside the Mafia for six years. That is no mean task. His work alone was able to bring about over one hundred convicti......more